Smoke shade for fireplaces



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SMOKE SHADE FOR FIREPLACES Filed Feb. 27, 1931 5 Sheets-Sheet 5 Patented Aug. 9, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT orsiacs ARVID LINDIBERG, OF LIMA, OHIO SMOKE SHADE FOR FIREPLACES Application filed February 27, 1931. Serial No.518,859.

r-. the smoke from coming into the room or the like when the draft from the fine is acting poorly particularly when the flue is cold at the start of the fire in the fire place.

Another very important object of the invention resides in the provision of a smoke shade which is simple in its construction, inexpensive to manufacture and install, easy to manipulate, compact and convenient in its arrangement of parts, thoroughly efficient and reliable in use and operation, and otherwise well adapted to the purpose for which it is designed.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a fire place showing my shade in place.

Figure 2 is a horizontal section therethrough.

Figure 3 is a vertical section therethrough showing the shade in closed position.

Figure 4 is a similar view showing the shade in open position.

Figure 5 is a sectional View taken substantially on the line 55 of Figure 4.

Figure 6 is a perspective view of one of the segmental frames.

Figure 7 is a detail perspective view showing one of the coil guides for the shade, and

Figure 8 is a perspective view of one of the mounting brackets.

Referring to the drawings in detail it Wlll be seen that the numeral 5 denotes a fire place of any ordinary or preferred construction and against the side walls in the fire place I position hollow walls 6 across the top of which is disposed a casing 7 the rear of which 7 is closed and the front of which is open.

This casing is anchored in place by arms 8 connected to L-shaped brackets 9 fixed to the fire place as at 10 and having slots 11 to receive bolts 12 in the arm 8 thus accommodating fire places of different sizes. Segmental frames 14 include arcuate portions a having flanges Z) and radial sections 0 of angular construction with bearings 15 which are rockable on pins 16 in the walls 6 so that these frames be swung, from position I shown in Figure 3 to position shown in Figure 4 and vice versa.

One end of each frameis formed with a hook 17 Plates 18 are in the frames to close the same and these plates may be constructed the shade and is fixed in the crotches of the hooks 17.

The shade is adapted to be disposed in the casing and when fully disposed therein as is shown in Figure 4 to form a coil portion by means of coil guides 21 adjacent the rear of the casing and formed on the side walls thereof. The bottom of the casing adjacent the side is slotted as at 22 so as to permit entrance of a portion of the section a and also a portion of the section 0 as is illustrated to advantage in Figure 4.

A suitable handle 23 is provided on the bead 20. A door 25 is hingedly mounted as at 26-on the casing to close the front end thereof when the shade is in the open position illustrated in Figure 4. This door may he swung upwardly and by grasping the handle 23 the shade is pulled outwardly to the position shown in Figure3 .at which time the side edges of a portion of the shade out of the casing rest on the sections a to the inside of their flanges b.

WVhen starting a fire in the fireplace the shade shouldbe placed inits. closed position shown in Figure 3 and this will prevent the smoke from coming out into the room until the fire place heats up suificiently to provide a proper draft and of course the draft will draw out the smoke from the hood like formation provided by the shade in closed position and then the shade may be moved to its open position shown in Figure 4 by pulling upwardly on the handle 23 as will be quite apparent.

The flexible sheet 6 should be stiffened in any suitable manner to prevent it from buckling when the hood is raised from the position shown in Figure 3 to that shown in Figure 4 though if the sheet should buckle it could be pressed upon by one of the hands of the operator when the device is being raised to prevent it from buckling. The door 25 also tends to prevent the sheet from buckling as it rests on the hood structure and acts as guiding means for the sheet as shown in Figure 3. t

It is thought that the construction, utility, operation and advantagesof this invention will be now quite apparent to those skilled in this art without a more detailed descri'p tion thereof.

The present embodiment of the invention has been described in considerable detail merely for the purposes of exemplification since in actual practice it attains the features of advantage enumerated as desirable in the statement of the invention and the above description.

It is apparent that changes in the details of construction, and in the combination and arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention as hereinafter claimed or sacrificing any of its advantages.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is:

1. An apparatus of the class described comprising a pair of hollow side walls, a casing across the top of the side walls and having an open front, a shade adapted to be pulled from and pushed into the casing, a pair of frames having arcuate sections, means for rookably mounting the frames in the side walls, said casing having slots to receive portions of the frames, said shade having one end fixed to the frame so that the side edges thereof may rest on the arcuate sections of the frames when the frames are swung outwardly from the side walls. p

2. An apparatus of the class described com prising a pair of hollow side walls, a casing across the top of the side walls and having an open front, a shade adapted to'be pulled from an'd'pushedin'to the casing, apair of frames having arcuate sections, means for rockably mounting the frames in the side walls, said casing having slots to receive portions ofthe frames, said shade having one end fixed to the frame so that the side edges thereof may rest onthe arcuate sections of the frames'when the frames are swung outwardly from the side walls, coil guides in the sides of the frames to coil' portions of the shade when pushed into the casing.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

ABVID LINDBERG. a 

